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dc.contributor.authorVitikainen, Annamari
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-20T14:05:10Z
dc.date.available2020-01-20T14:05:10Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-03
dc.description.abstractThis essay discusses Cyril Ghosh’s analysis of the notion of ‘gay covering’ as an act of downplaying one’s gayness in the face of public expectations, and its countermove of ‘reversing cover’. I acknowledge, along with Ghosh, that both the demands to ‘cover’ and ‘reverse cover’ are problematic from the perspective of LGBT+ authenticity. I aim to show, however, that such acts of covering, and reversing cover, are borne from complex social relations that involve (often conflicting) expectations, self-identifications, and modes of <i>being treated as</i>. This social structure of what it is to be ‘gay’ may help explain, not only why such demands to cover, and reverse cover, are problematic, but also why, in the world we live in, the harm and oppression of the two demands are very different.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVitikainen A. On Being Good Gay: 'Covering' and the social structure of being LGBT+. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 2020en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1772462
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13698230.2019.1709029
dc.identifier.issn1369-8230
dc.identifier.issn1743-8772
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/17150
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.journalCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 259017en_US
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/SAMKUL/259017/Norway/Globalizing Minority Rights: Cosmopolitanism, Global Institutions, and Cultural Justice//en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000en_US
dc.titleOn Being Good Gay: 'Covering' and the social structure of being LGBT+en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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